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Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. How the 2026 voting went shows some incredible tidbits. (Beltran photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty. Jones photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty) Getty Images Two more players will be joining Jeff Kent in the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer. With voting revealed, Carlos Beltrán (84.2%) and Andruw Jones (78.4%) gained inclusion on the 2026 ballot. Players must achieve 75.0% to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and must receive at least 5.0% of the votes to remain on the ballot. Players can remain on the ballot for a maximum of 10 years. There are a lot of interesting tidbits in how the ballots went, and how voters have changed their stance given a significant influx of new voters on the 2026 ballot (disclosure, I am one of those and detailed my ballot and criteria in this article). Here are some facts and figures from the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame voting: There were just eight centerfielders in the Hall of Fame before tonight’s results were revealed. Beltrán and Jones become the first true centerfielders elected since Ken Griffey, Jr in 2016, and Kirby Puckett in 2001. There has never been a year when two centerfielders were voted in in the same year. Beyond both playing centerfield, they were very nearly born on the same day. Both were born in April of 1977 (Jones on April 23 and Beltran on April 24) Jones has the largest jump in voting from his first year on the ballot to reaching the 75% threshold. In 2018, his first year on the BBWAA ballot, Jones very nearly didn’t get above the 5% to remain on the ballot. He received just 31 votes (7.3%), compared to 78.4% in his ninth year.…

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